A similar fix is shown at http://beranger.org/index.php?page=3k&article=2501
The scim stuff also appears to be causing some grief for acroread. The
symptom is that acroread will silently fail. You can get more info on this
problem and solution at
http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/gtk_gnome/why_firefox_mozilla_acrobat_reader_7_other_gtk_2_based_apps_can_not_be_installed_started
Tony
Andrew Ptak wrote:
John Hearns wrote:
Rob Henderson wrote:
I have installed acroread 7 using either with the rpm package or
with the
tar file. Both times the acroread program gives the error
expr: syntax error
repeatedly
Try:
sh -x /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread <filename>.pdf
There are 12 occurences of 'expr' in my copy of acroread,
(Fedora Core 6 on my laptop, but I don't think that has any
consequence).
sh -x should tell you which line has the problem.
Report this back to the list and we can try to figure it out.
This worked for me:
http://linuxon-vgn-a497xp.blogspot.com/2006/11/acroread-expr-syntax-error.html
